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COUNT ADRIEN ALBERT MARIE DE MUN (184...

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Originally appearing in Volume V19, Page 1 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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COUNT ADRIEN ALBERT
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MARIE DE MUN (1841— )
  , French politician, was born at Lumigny, in the department of Seine-et-
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Marne, on the 28th of
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February 1841 . He entered the army, saw much service in Algeria (1862), and took
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part in the fighting around
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Metz in 187o . On the surrender of Metz, he was sent as a prisoner of war to
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Aix-la-Chapelle, whence he returned in time to assist at the capture of Paris from the Commune . A fervent
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Roman Catholic, he devoted himself to advocating a patriarch type bf Christian
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Socialism . His eloquence made him the most prominent member of the Cercles Catholiques d'Ouvriers, and his attacks on Republican social policy at last evoked a prohibition from the minister of war . He thereupon resigned his commission (Nov . 1895), and in the following February stood as Royalist and Catholic
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candidate for
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Pontivy . The influence of the Church was exerted to secure his election, and the pope during its progress sent him the order of St Gregory . He was returned, but the election was declared invalid . He was re-elected, however, in the following August, and for many years was the most conspicuous leader of the anti-Republican party . " We form," he said on one occasion, " the irreconcilable
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Counter-Revolution." As far back as 1878 he had declared himself opposed to universal suffrage, a declaration that lost him his seat from 1879 to 1881 . He spoke strongly against the expulsion of the French princes, and it was chiefly through his influence that the support of the Royalist party was given to General Boulanger .

But as a faithful Catholic he obeyed the encyclical of 1892, and declared his readiness to rally to a Republican

government, provided that it respected religion . In the following
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January he received from the pope a letter commending his
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action, and encouraging him in his social reforms . He was defeated at the general election of that
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year, but in 1894 was returned for Finistere (
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Morlaix) . In 1897 he succeeded Jules Simon as a member of the French Academy . This honour he owed to the purity of style and remarkable eloquence of his speeches, which, with a few
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pamphlets, form the bulk of his published
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work . In Ma vocation sociale (1908) he wrote an explanation and
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justification of his career .

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